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Posted by call me Kris Kringle (aka pacrat) Dec 23 '16, 19:23

on my laptop, i have Microsoft Office 2010 stuff ... Word, Power Point, Excel, etc.

would it be possible to "copy" all of the software stuff to a flash drive or external hard drive and, if i ever needed it (for example, if my laptop crashed beyond recovery and i bought a refurbished laptop or something, and then wanted to install the microsoft office stuff onto the 2nd laptop / desktop) .... would i basically work?

i'm a software / IT dummy here, so my apologies if it's a stupid question. I just don't know how this stuff works ..,

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Sadly, no. That's not how Windows software works. But you can recover the key used in the installation. - Mop Dec 23, 19:43
When software is installed on windows, it generally digs deep into the system and isn't easy to back up. - Beryllium Dec 23, 19:29
retrieve the keys is the best way -- nm - budice Dec 23, 19:23

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